Comments on: Lawsuit Alleges Another Isolated Incident

By: evodbor

evodbor — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:37:00 +0000

“Our police agencies need to vet and supervise combat veterans with utmost scrutiny. They’re dangerous. They have above-average incidences of mental disorders and proclivities to violence, but we treat them like demigods and have a snit at the suggestion that they aren’t inherently fit to enforce civilian law” It is the individual not the military. Blanketing the all combat veterans then throwing snide comments about treating them like Demi-gods makes you sound no better than a racist. After 8 years I have my issues from the marine corps, but I will not use violence unless defending myself. Honestly I cant stand blanketing comments like yours. I am sure everyone else on this site thinks Military members are monsters like you do, and they are just as prejudiced as any KKK, or Nation of Islam. I had to desensitize myself to violence like everyone else serving in the suck. It takes balls to do what we did. Not a day went by without praying to see my wife and kids but knew terrorist would slaughter my family as well as yours if they could. I will say that I am flat out bias against cop violence period. I believe many cops become cops because of the power they hold and become corrupted. Not all, but definitely many from my personal experience with off duty cops at the shooting range. A cop should have a minimum of an Associates Degree as far as I am concerned. BTW I became a Registered Nurse and dealt with many brash cops in the ER as well, another reason I will admit to having a probably faulty view of the police force, but i admit it. I will say more good cops than bad overall though. Have a good one all.

By: MATT

MATT — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:08:02 +0000

Filing an Open Records request with the city is a breeze. They have a website set up, and I have found the city to be quite cooperative. That being said my request was related to an ongoing city parks construction project in my neighborhood and not a more sensitive issue like this, but if you’re really interested in doing some digging it is worth a shot. I set up an appointment directly with the department I requested information about and was given full paper files and desk space for as long as I needed.

By: Tex

Tex — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:11:50 +0000

A club!?!? :wtf: since when was a CLUB considered an illegal item??? I guess I better saw my 30-year-old training boken in pieces, because it could be considered “illegal”. Oh, and let’s not forget my fencing foils, I’m sure that’ll get me 20 years. >:-[

Welcome to today’s Police State, the Corporate States of AmeriKKKa…

By: Don't comment much

Don't comment much — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:10:34 +0000

#18 Mark wrote on February 4th, 2012 at 2:41 pm: BSK, what are you comparing the address in your linked report to? I'm not BSK, but here's the connection. From the DPD police report:

"OFFENSE LOCATION: 01103 ELMHURSTPL"

From the federal suit complaint, page 2:

"1.01 Plaintiff Danny Cantu is an individual residing in Dallas County, Texas at 1103 Elmhurst, Dallas, Texas 75201."

By: UhOh

UhOh — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:02:16 +0000

Say Hello to NDAA, signed into law by your own Obama, and supported by the k-street man Romney :D

Ron Paul or None At All.

By: Steve Gates III

Steve Gates III — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:19:56 +0000

If you download movies/music you can expect this kind of thing to happen to you. The guy was clearly downloading movies for personal use and the cops have every right to @#$ you up for stealing IP. This is the USA not some 3rd world country that allows downloading.

buy your movies like everybody else or get @#$’ed up.

By: Bealittle

Bealittle — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:36:12 +0000

maybe the guy deserved it and just managed to get rid of his stuff right in time. gratz to the police for beating up a scumbag.

By: schabadoo

schabadoo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:33:40 +0000

— Smene’s got some ‘splaining to do.—

No record of the incident? No arrest?

Yeah, they certainly do have to explain themselves.

By: burp

burp — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:10 +0000

Thats called planted evidence.

By: None

None — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:53:48 +0000

This whole news story is clearly fake

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:42:27 +0000

I’ve been saying for a while now that the city and county governments and law enforcement of Dallas are completely out of control. The only solution in my mind is to revoke the charters and let the city and county both be absorbed by neighboring counties, dissolve the current local government, and tear down Lew Sterrett. This may sound extreme, but the problems are extreme. Lew Sterrett failed federal inspections year after year after year and was never shut down despite the threat being made over and over. This kind of lax oversight is allowing the criminals to run the government. It has to stop. The only way is to dissolve the government and let the county be absorbed by other counties. That would mean all the current administration would be out of jobs, and all the local police, guards, sheriffs, etc. would be out of jobs, as well as all administrators. This HAS to be done. It’s the only way to stop the rot of evil in Dallas.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:41:08 +0000

BSK, what are you comparing the address in your linked report to?

By: Half deaf, half blind, no repercussions. | Rallias Ubernerd

Half deaf, half blind, no repercussions. | Rallias Ubernerd — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:28:19 +0000

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By: BSK

BSK — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:27:38 +0000

http://policereports.dallaspolice.net/publicreports/ReportOutput/625023145.pdf

The date, address, and approximate time of day all match up. It claims evidence was found, including an illegal fiream, drugs, and a club. The evidence was taken and stored. Smene’s got some ‘splaining to do.

By: Stick

Stick — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:56:38 +0000

Maybe Danny Cantu was banging one of the pigs wives/girlfriends/daughters and they had to have a quiet word with him?

By: tired dog

tired dog — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:29:18 +0000

If this account is correct street justice is the only answer. Reap what you sow leo.

By: Michael Chaney

Michael Chaney — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:34:15 +0000

They shouldn’t had the FBI bring their chainsaw.

By: Goober

Goober — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:46:25 +0000

And one more thing – it would mean absolutely nothing to me even if they DID find what they were looking for (probably drugs). There is nothing other than an honest-to-god armed standoff that justifies this sort of action against a presumed to be innocent civilian.

The fact that he didn’t have what they were looking for only proves my point – that he was innocent, and should have been presumed to be innocent before they blew him up and beat the shit out of him. Someone needs to go to jail over this. Civil resolution just isn’t enough.

By: Goober

Goober — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:43:34 +0000

See, I’ll bet they start by saying that he was beaten because he resisted arrest, but the thing is, if someone lit off a bomb in my house and then rushed me with submachine guns, I’m not totally convinced that my baser instincts wouldn’t at least temporarily take over before I’d had a chance to chake the cobwebs of shock and ringing ears out, and my baser instincts say “run like hell or fight like hell” before I’ve had a chance to talk them out of it. Doing this and then acting surprised when the guy you just blew up doesn’t instantly do the rational thing and drop to the ground and submit is sort of silly – the guy is dazed, by the very nature of the design of the flash bang. He isn’t going to be capable of following orders or rationally assuming that they guys who just stormed his house with guns are actually cops.

What ever happened to just knocking on the door? I just don’t get why we need to perform paramilitary raids on a diesel mechnic’s house. Did the guy have a history of violent priors? To justify this, he’d better have a long history of very violent priors.

By: Burgers Allday

Burgers Allday — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:35:55 +0000

The p.d. probably doesn’t want publicity so that nothing goes into the files of the officers. The plaintiffs’ attorney knows this and is using it as a bargaining chip (eg, if this settles quickly then officers will not need to be named).

The Dallas Observer article basically implies at the end that this is why the Dallas Observer reporter thinks everybody is being hush hush, and/or playing dumb, for right now. If that is what the reporter thought, I bet he’s right.